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I made this list of cool things you can do from shell especially for desktop users. They all work on my ubuntu and most of them generic (except maybe apt-get which works for debian based distrubtions). The list is not ordered or categorized. It’s really just a bunch of things a little different from the regular text manipulation one-liners. They are all useful, at least for me.

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Incrementally backup directory to external hard drive
Note: this command is dangerous as it will delete your destination dir. It’s good if you want 1:1 copy of directory and want to be able to sync only changes in future (file removal from source directory also considered change and will be replicated next time you execute). The –modify-window keeps files timestamps and useful when you sync from EXT2/3 filesystem to FAT32.
# rsync -rot –inplace –delete –progress –modify-window=2 source_dir destination_dir